Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-14


G. T.. Hammack, Of the Prairie Dog,
called on US Saturday.
HazeltOn Flour gets there every time.
For sale by B. X. Harrington. Is
The Ice Pool busted-prices reduced.
Leave orders with Jameson or Ham. IL
Charlie COnover was over at Winfield
four days last week, a witness in amin
portant trial.
Ladies' Cloaks, New-Markets. Jack
cts and Mems Overcoats, at cost at w.
NJ. Wheeler's. IS
Justice McCandless has moved his
Office one door further east, TO the gyp-
sum building.
Buy your Groceries of b. K. herring
ton aud you will get your moneys
worth, every time. Is
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
lst National bank. A
FELL your neighbors about the great
sale of 400 cattle, to occur next week,
in this city. Twelve months time will
be given. IG
At Kingman, last week, the case
against Riley Griffin and his damage
suit against Smith and others, were
continued until next term.
Ben. DePui is still with w. NJ.
Wheeler, and will remain with the
stock until it is entirely closed out. He
wants his old friends to know this.
A new 1000 pound bell was hung on
the school building last week to take
the place Of the old cracked one. The
children now have no excuse for being
tardy.
Receiving new goods daily. No shod-
dy, bankrupt stock, but all clean, bright
and fresh, selected from the largest and
most complete stocks IN New York and
Chicago. Standiford, Youmans & Ell
dred. 10
Our trade Is more than fattering;
our trade has quadrupled since we
opened out, and for no other reason
than that we do as we advertise. All
goods at cost at w. NJ. Wheeler's. 16
w. l.. Cox, of Turkey Creek, and S.
A. FurgasOn, of Elm Creek, have both
brought in some fine specimens of
corn since our last. The Cox corn is as
good as any ever raised in the county.
Miss Barthena Hutchins, who was
severely burned while lighting a fire
with coal oil, last week, is recovering,
and with the exception OF a SCARED
face, will not be otherwise discommo-
ded.
Our stock of boots and shoes is COM
plete; nothing to add. Bought for cash,
from eastern manufacturers, and we
will quote you prices so low they will
astonish you. Standiford, Youmans a.
Eldred. 10
A. ID. Brannan required more room
for his business and accordingly has
rented the McNeal bank building and
residence combined, on North Main
street, and will open hotel i'm connec-
tion with his restaurant, and will do a
good business.
Preaching service in the grove on
Sabbath evenings closed last Sabbath |
night. Rev. SandersOn thanks the
people for there attendance and cordi- |
ally invites them 80 the service in the |
church next Sabbath night at half past !
seven o'clock.
DIR. j. II. Davis, anticipating a trip |
of several months duration, will sell. |
cheap for cash or bankable note, one |
mare and colt, in good condition, and |
several head of cattle. Persons desir-
ing to settle their accounts, will find |
him at his Office during the next few
days only.
j. z. Fleming, of Elm Mills, was a
candidate for sheriff before the repub-
lican convention and might have Sc
cured the nomination but for the fact |
that the delegate who was to have put |
his name before the convention, like |
a blamed fool, b" moved that Whitaker's
nomination be made by reclamation.
That killed Fleming.
From W. e. Douglass we learn of the |
accidental death of Ernest Bockoven,
the five year-old son of Morris Bocko-
ven, at Sawyer, last Saturday. The |
little fellow was playing around the
stockyards when one Of the heavy |
gates fell on him, striking him on the
head and killing him instantly. There
is feeling at Sawyer that the railroad !
company is responsible for the accident |
as the gate was insecurity hung.
Coldwater Star, Sept. 10: "Johnson's |
Uncle Toms Cabin Company will give
us Uncle Toms Cabin Friday Night |
and Peck's Bad Boy Saturday night,
introducing the trained goat, the royal
bumper and the initiating of old man
Peck into the Masonic lodge. This |
company comes to us highly endorsed |
by the press" And now We call upon |
the city government to throw out pick
ct lines, close up the gates, draw the
bridges and prevent Jim and his outfit |
from getting here.
A mad dog scare has taken possession
of this city in real earnest. Last Sat
urday rabid dog was seen in town vic
iously swapping at everything in reach,
and 1t is known that he bit half of the |
dogs in town. All efforts to kill the |
brute were futile until Sunday morning
when John Dohrer caused him to bite
the dust. Monday the city marshal no.
titled the owners of dogs that were Ii
censed TO keep there pets tied up or
muzzled, and Then he entered INTO a
wholesale destruction, killing a dozen or
more. He will kill every dog found
running Mt large without a muzzle, no
matter who the owner may be. And if |